Immaterial labor as transforming potential in digital networks

Abstract

Given the transformations in the working relations after automation, immaterial labor has becoming the main economic activity of an increasing number of people all over the world. Executed at any time and at any place, this type of labor surrounds citizens’ lives completely, contributing to biopower practices operating over them. On the other hand, given the fact it is connected to subjectivity and disseminated in digital networks, the immateriality of this labor cannot be completely controlled, which makes it also a form of resistance.